Now Princeton’s male a cappella group is pulling “Kiss the Girl” from its set because it promotes toxic masculinity.

A male a cappella group at Princeton University has pulled a Disney movie song from its act following a student newspaper column that suggested the lyrics helped promote "toxic masculinity." https://t.co/GtnRTPcBiZ

The song launches a heteronormative attack on women’s right to oppose the romantic and sexual liberties taken by men, further inundating the listener with themes of toxic masculinity. In trying to motivate Eric to kiss Ariel, the crab, Sebastian, makes use of lines such as, “Looks like the boy’s too shy,” “Don’t be scared,” and “It’s such a shame, too bad/You’re gonna miss the girl.”

Such expressions imply that not using aggressive physical action to secure Ariel’s sexual submission makes Eric weak — an irrefutable scaredy-cat. Applied outside of the realm of the movie, these statements suggest that masculinity is contingent on domination of women. This attitude can catalyze violent tendencies toward, and assault against, women.

So if the song inundates the listen with themes of toxic masculinity, which can catalyze assault against women, the Tigertones could be subconsciously programming audience members to assault women as they leave the performance.

To be honest, Wollstein’s real problem lies with the performance, in which the Tigertones bring up random audience members on stage and expect heteronormativity to take its course. “I have seen a queer student brought on stage have to uncomfortably push away her forced male companion,” she writes.

This headline is so misleading. As they would sing the song they’d try and find a girl in the audience and try and kiss her. That’s why it was pulled. 🙄

Song ain’t toxic, toxic is suggesting it is toxic. Then if their act has been criticized for pulling women onstage to be kissed, stop doing it or at least ask if someone wants to come onstage to be kissed by a stranger.